Any body knows when the Spartan-3E starter kit will be availaible from Xilinx? Website says 4th quarter. Isn't it 4th quarter already?
Spartan-3E starter kit
Started by ●October 29, 2005
Reply by ●October 29, 20052005-10-29
When you have to pay a bill by a certain day, or when you have to turn in a paper in school, it always means "before the end of the specified period". So "fourth quarter" means, before December 31. Peter Alfke
Reply by ●October 29, 20052005-10-29
"Peter Alfke" <alfke@sbcglobal.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:1130600565.433835.241010@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...> When you have to pay a bill by a certain day, or when you have to turn > in a paper in school, it always means "before the end of the specified > period". > So "fourth quarter" means, before December 31. > Peter Alfke >the Xilinx webshop now only says that the s3e kit is 'targetted' DEC 2005. translated: Xilinx makes NO commitment about the actual availability at all. to my surprise Avnet claimed that they have shipped about 400 s3e kits and that they expect the kit to become available ex stock again. At the time i asked (a few weeks ago) Avnet was not able to ship immediatly. I REALLY REALLY wonder what is the reason why Avnet is already shipping S3e based boards, and Xilinx is 'targetting' DEC 2005 ??? Anybody cares to explain? Antti PS I have an immediate project that requires small low cost FPGA production volumes maybe 500/year. I was considering S3e - but I guess I may have to reconsider and use non Xilinx vendor Altera/Lattice as they can ship their low cost FPGAs. I am still looking at S3e,.but unless I will get some confirmation that low volumes will be available within few months, I have to use alternatives.
Reply by ●October 29, 20052005-10-29
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:34:14 +0200, "Antti Lukats" <antti@openchip.org> wrote:>"Peter Alfke" <alfke@sbcglobal.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag >news:1130600565.433835.241010@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com... >> When you have to pay a bill by a certain day, or when you have to turn >> in a paper in school, it always means "before the end of the specified >> period". >> So "fourth quarter" means, before December 31. >> Peter Alfke >> > >the Xilinx webshop now only says that the s3e kit is 'targetted' DEC 2005. > >translated: Xilinx makes NO commitment about the actual availability at all. > >to my surprise Avnet claimed that they have shipped about 400 s3e kits and >that they expect the kit to become available ex stock again. At the time i >asked (a few weeks ago) Avnet was not able to ship immediatly. > >I REALLY REALLY wonder what is the reason why Avnet is already shipping S3e >based boards, and Xilinx is 'targetting' DEC 2005 ??? > >Anybody cares to explain? > >Antti > >PS I have an immediate project that requires small low cost FPGA production >volumes maybe 500/year. I was considering S3e - but I guess I may have to >reconsider and use non Xilinx vendor Altera/Lattice as they can ship their >low cost FPGAs. I am still looking at S3e,.but unless I will get some >confirmation that low volumes will be available within few months, I have to >use alternatives. >Well considering the Xilinx webshop doesn't even have any S3 devices in stock, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for S3e.
Reply by ●October 29, 20052005-10-29
Reply by ●October 31, 20052005-10-31
It is Monday :-) Simon "Peter Alfke" <alfke@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:1130631842.026203.205060@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...> Let's straighten this out on Monday! > Peter Alfke, Xilinx Applications >
Reply by ●October 31, 20052005-10-31
.. When you have to pay a bill by a certain day, or when you have to turn .. in a paper in school, it always means "before the end of the specified .. period". So "Monday" means, before 23:59:59 on Monday.... :-) I'm sorry. Somebody had to do it.
Reply by ●October 31, 20052005-10-31
Reply by ●October 31, 20052005-10-31
Peter Alfke wrote:> New Zealand is ahead of the rest of the world, as usual... > Peter >So when will the Spartan 3e actually be available?????? I can't even get my hands on a few chips. This is somewhat upsetting because the same thing happening with the Spartan 3. Even though I love the Xilinx stuff, it seems really damn hard to get the parts! -Eli
Reply by ●October 31, 20052005-10-31
Trying to smoothe the waves. Spartan3e does NOT use a new, unproven manufacturing technology. That means there should not be big surprises like they were with the previous generation. The sequence of availability will be : 500e, and 100e first, 1600e then, 250e and 1200 ater that. I am looking for the evalboard later today. Peter
